At the time, it was television's holy grail. No contestant on Regis Philbin's quiz show had ever vanquished Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's battery of bizarre questions. So when IRS agent John Carpenter got face to face with the jackpot, he made sure to capture it in style. Sure, Carpenter comes off as insufferably smug, but hey so does Regis.
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It's been exactly 50 years since contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that his victory on the game show Twenty-One was rigged, but the industry remains as popular as ever thanks, in part, to lesser scandals, slip-ups, bloopers and milestones like these